Delhi CM Rekha Gupta Faced ‘AQI’ Chants At Lionel Messi Event As Pollution Hits Severe Levels

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In this news bulletin, the focus is on the severe air pollution crisis gripping the national capital. An Unidentified speaker reports that Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta faced a 'frosty reception' at the Arun Jaitley Stadium while felicitating Argentine football icon Lionel Messi. The crowd reportedly chanted 'AQI, AQI' as the city's air quality remained in the 'severe' category. The broadcast highlights that over 200 flights were cancelled on December 15 due to poor visibility caused by a 'cocktail' of dense fog and smoke. Additionally, the Delhi government has ordered online classes for students up to class 6. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has criticised the government, sharing clips of the public's slogans. The report also notes a slight improvement in smog due to approaching northwestern winds.

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00:00Breaking news that's coming in from the National Capital.

00:03Slight improvement has been seen in the smog today.

00:06Approaching northwestern wind speed likely to scatter the fog situation

00:10as well as the smog relief expected from fog in Delhi and the National Capital Region.

00:16Surface wind speed to improve the AQI marginally today is what we are given to understand.

00:22These are the latest updates that we are picking up on in terms of where the air quality index stands

00:26and there is expectations of it in fact improving a little which our colleague earlier had told us

00:32that when the wind speed indeed ends up increasing that's when there is some sort of expectation of a relief

00:38from this thick smog, the thick blanket of smog in fact that shrouds the NCR every morning during the winter season.

00:46It's a combination of both fog and the smoke in the atmosphere with the particulate matter having in fact

00:52risen in terms of quantity in the very atmosphere around the NCR.

00:57So right now the wind speeds are expected to pick up later in the day as well.

01:02In fact already this morning there was a slight improvement that could be seen in the very smog situation

01:09and this is the current place where it all stands.

01:13But let's also take you through all the details that's led to the current situation,

01:17what has been the situation so far as we speak.

01:20The national capital's air has been choking by the day and there is no denying that.

01:25As the overall AQI in Delhi remains in the very poor category even now,

01:29more than a dozen areas which include the likes of Anand Vihar, Okhla, Punjabi Bagh, Vazirpur

01:35have recorded AQI already in the severe category.

01:38Slight improvements in the smog were seen today.

01:41Early morning approaching northwestern wind speed is likely to scatter the fog-like situation in smog.

01:46The surface wind speed is to improve the AQI marginally as well.

01:49The Chief Minister Rekha Gupta in fact faced a frosty reception colder than Delhi's winter

01:54as she arrived at the Arun Jetli Stadium to felicitate the Argentine football icon Lionel Messi.

02:00So things in fact are populated to that very event as well.

02:06Videos now are viral on social media which shows spectators allegedly chanting AQI, AQI

02:12and booing the Chief Minister the moment she entered the very venue.

02:16The Ahmad Dmi party on the other hand too shared the clips of the crowd raising the AQI slogan

02:20mocking the government over Delhi's worsening air crisis.

02:24With the capital's AQI inching dangerously close to the 500 mark,

02:28the Delhi government has ordered online classes for students up to class 6.

02:32And it's not just pollution viewers that we're speaking of.

02:35Delhi is staring at a double trouble situation here.

02:38It's a cocktail between dense fog which has slashed the visibility,

02:43crippling flight operations as well along with the pollution that we've already been grappling with here.

02:49More than 200 flights were cancelled from Delhi on Monday itself, December 15 that is.

02:54And the situation is only going to get worse in the coming days with winter peaking

02:59and whenever the wind speed slows down.

03:01So that is the current situation that we are looking at at this given point.

03:31Delhi's air is not worth breathing, this is what you and I know for a while.

03:56But citizens of Delhi took this message to the chief minister directly.

04:03This has been reported at the stadium where the Messi tour, the GOAT tour was going on.

04:10When Messi entered Delhi and went to the stadium, he got a lot of applause.

04:15Along with him went the Delhi chief minister.

04:18Upon the arrival of the Delhi chief minister, we are now getting reports that massive booing took place.

04:25Of two kinds.

04:26One that has been confirmed to us by reporters on ground that there was Rekha Gupta high high slogans.

04:32Those were heard on the ground.

04:34Apart from that, now based on those social media videos, now lots of other videos have come online as well.

04:41Amati Party has taken it to the fore, also saying that AQI, AQI chants were heard.

04:46However, we cannot confirm that video just yet.

04:48We cannot, let us know, we can.

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